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No more chicken for Amelia Dimoldenberg.After 12 years of hosting “Chicken Shop Date” on YouTube and interviewing musicians, celebrities, and other creators, Dimoldenberg announced that the internet talk show is coming to an end.”I never thought I’d stop Chicken Shop Date,” Dimoldenberg wrote in a social media post. “I thought maybe it would be a part of me forever, and in some way it always will, but I feel like it’s now time to move on from this adventure and onto a new one.””Chicken Shop Date” has more than 3.4 million subscribers on YouTube and millions of followers on TikTok…

A ChargePoint electric vehicle charging station in Hudson, New York, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024.Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChargePoint Holdings CEO Rick Wilmer believes a surge in the electric vehicle charging company’s stock Thursday is just “the beginning of the momentum,” he told CNBC.Shares of ChargePoint increased more than 70% during afternoon trading after the company significantly beat Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations for its 2027 fiscal year and guided toward continued improvements in its performance. It’s the most notable increase since it underwent a reverse stock split last year to raise its share price and maintain compliance…

As an only child, an occasional weekend slumber party was the longest I’d had to share a bedroom or bathroom — or anything, really — until I was a freshman in college.So last year, when my 62-year-old mom proposed putting her house on the market and us buying a place together, I was incredulous — I had no idea how that arrangement would work for us. Even though we’d had nearly 20 years of cohabitation experience while I was growing up, it was hard to picture us as natural roommates.Needless to say, our decision to move in together was not…

The San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams are heading to Australia, marking the longest-ever distance two NFL teams have traveled for a game.It’s all part of the league’s push to expand American football globally. A record nine international regular-season games will be played in 2026 – kicking off in Melbourne, the city’s first NFL game, and followed by inaugural match-ups in Rio de Janeiro and Paris. The schedule also brings professional football to London, Madrid, Munich and Mexico City. NFL owners have already approved 10 international games for the 2027 season – the maximum number of games the league can…

Look closely at the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal number.Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf snuck a parenthetical into his announcement of the company’s acquisition: “(special congrats if you find the Hugging Face and Nvidia references hidden in our $12,930,300,000 acquisition price).”Techies raced to decode the Easter egg.The Hugging Face reference was easy. The number 129,303 is the decimal representation of Unicode code point U+1F917 — the 🤗 emoji, officially named “Hugging Face.”One commenter pointed out this emoji connection. Wolf responded: “And there is a second meaning related to Nvidia.”The Nvidia reference was trickier. Some commenters spotted 93 in the combination, guessing that…

Stanley Druckenmiller at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha on Sept. 28, 2022.Scott Mlyn | CNBCA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Investment firms of ultra-wealthy families are helping fuel the venture capital rebound in biotechnology. In August, family offices made 52 direct investments in private companies, with biotech startups representing about 20% of transactions, according to data provided exclusively to CNBC by Fintrx, a private wealth intelligence platform.Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office, one of the most active family…

As Uber cuts jobs, it’s targeting some of the smallest teams in its org chart.In a memo announcing layoffs affecting about 10% of staffers on Wednesday, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the ride-hailing giant would trim management layers and cut the number of “micro-teams” — those with only one or two direct reports — by nearly half.”The outcome is a simpler org chart geared toward building versus managing,” Khosrowshahi wrote.Uber’s focus isn’t simply on small groups of workers. It’s groups that come with their own management layer. The move comes at a time when many tech companies are looking to reconstruct…

Following in the footsteps of a legend is no easy feat. For every Tim Cook, there are countless tales of new leaders failing to fill gigantic shoes.New Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel finds himself in such an unenviable position: He’s tasked with replacing Warren Buffett, the wealthiest self-made investor in history and arguably the greatest market titan of them all.Since taking over at the start of 2026, Abel has let his portfolio moves do the talking. But on Wednesday, he sat down for a wide-ranging interview with CNBC that shed light on Berkshire’s investment strategy.The broad takeaway: The firm is…

At 27, my daughter earns more than I did at 57. But she still can’t properly clean a coffee machine or remove sticky spills from her kitchen countertops.One of the few regrets I have as a parent is not encouraging her to work a minimum-wage job during her formative years. Rather than scooping ice cream or scrubbing toilets, she spent her early teen summers at sleepaway camp with friends. In high school and college, she landed internships at prestigious financial institutions, including BlackRock and Dow Jones.Thanks to those internships, she graduated from college with an unpadded résumé, and by her…

Dental hygienists are among the high-paying jobs projected to grow and have relatively low exposure to AI.The Bureau of Labor Statistics classified how exposed a job is to AI based on research published by various authors over the past few years. BLS classified 213 of 831 occupations as having low exposure. “‘Low’ relative AI exposure generally indicates that the requirements of an occupation do not match well with the current capabilities of AI models, and that LLMs have not been observed performing many of the occupation’s tasks,” BLS said. Exposure doesn’t “imply job loss, productivity gains, automation probability, or wage…